 | This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Sanskrit on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Sanskrit in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Vedic and Classical Sanskrit and Pali pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
See shiksha for a more thorough discussion of the sounds of Sanskrit.
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Notes
edit- 1 2 3 Devanagari consonant letters such as क have the inherent vowel अ a. Thus, क is pronounced ka, even without any vowel sign added. But the IPA and IAST shown here have the consonant k only and do not include the vowel 'a'.
- 1 2 3 Comparison of IAST with ISO 15919 transliteration.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sanskrit contrasts dental [t] and [d] with retroflex [ʈ] and [ɖ] (as well as aspirated variants). Both sets sound like /t/ and /d/ to most English speakers although the dental [t] and [d] are used in place of the English /θ/ and /ð/ for some speakers with th-stopping.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Vowels may occur nasalised as an allophone of the nasal consonants in certain positions: see anusvara and chandrabindu.
- ↑ /r/ may be phonetically realised as [ɽ], [ɾ] or [ɾ̪] in Classical Sanskrit.
- ↑ Sanskrit distinguishes between long and short vowels. Each monophthong has a long and short phoneme. The diphthongs, historically /ɐi, aːi, ɐu, aːu/, also have a difference in quality: [eː, ɐi, oː, ɐu]. Rarely, vowels may be extra-long.
- ↑ [aːi̯] in Vedic Sanskrit.
- ↑ [aːu̯] in Vedic Sanskrit.
- ↑ [ɐi̯] in Vedic Sanskrit.
- ↑ [ɐu̯] in Vedic Sanskrit.
- ↑ [lrĭ] for most modern speakers. [lĭ] in Bengali and Maithili regions.
- ↑ [lri] for most modern speakers. [li] in Bengali and Maithili regions.
- ↑ [ɻĭ] or [ɾɪ] for most modern speakers. [rŭ] for southern speakers.
- ↑ [ri] or [ɽiː] for most modern speakers. [ru] for southern speakers.
- ↑ Visarga, added after a vowel.
- ↑ In Classical Sanskrit, stress was predictable by syllable weight: counting from the end of a word, the second-last was stressed if heavy (having a long vowel or a coda consonant); if it was light, the third-last was stressed if heavy; otherwise, stress fell on the fourth-last syllable. Vedic Sanskrit, in contrast, possessed an unpredictable pitch accent.
References
edit- Zieba, Maciej; Stiehl, Ulrich (June 9, 2002). "The Original Pronunciation of Sanskrit" (PDF). Ulrich Stiehl. Retrieved 27 September 2011.